Supreme Court of Delaware - September 2008 Opinion Summaries

Swanson v. State of Delaware

Criminal Law & Procedure
Conviction for firearms and drug offenses is vacated on double-jeopardy grounds where there was no manifest necessity for a mistrial in defendant's...

Wood v. State of Delaware

Criminal Law & Procedure
Convictions for rape and child sexual abuse are affirmed where defendant did not meet his burden to show that he was prejudiced by the denial of his...

Turner v. State of Delaware

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Convictions and sentence for assault, burglary, menacing, reckless endangering, and multiple firearms charges are affirmed where: 1) defendant...

Grabowski v. Mangler

Construction, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
In a negligence action against plaintiffs' co-employees who were engaged in horseplay at a job site that injured plaintiff, summary judgment for...

Maddrey v. Justice of the Peace Court 13

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Evidence, Landlord Tenant Law
In an eviction action, summary possession award to landlord is affirmed where: 1) the Superior Court had constitutionally-based, original and...

Merritt v. United Parcel Serv.

Administrative Law, Evidence, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
Decision of Industrial Accident Board to terminate disability plaintiffs paid to claimant by employer is reversed where an admission by employer that...

Dailey v. State of Delaware

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
Conviction for first-degree rape is affirmed over objections that: 1) the complaining witness's videotaped statement should have been excluded as...